The Final Sretch

This is our second to last day here in Chile! The trip is going by way too fast, and I’ve loved every second of it. Anyway, today we had a free morning—I finally was able to sleep in! After my much needed rest, we headed out to go paintballing. I didn’t even know that they liked and or even had paintball down here. I have never played before, but everyone who has said it is extremely fun. The course was an hour away, so everyone slept on the bus—like all the other trips. Some people were a little nervous heading out, primarily because we didn’t know if they were going to give us some sort of clothing to put on so we don’t ruin our clothes, which they did. We had to wear these really big and baggy jumpsuits over our clothes, a neck guard, as well as a paintball mask. After we were given the clothes, we were told the rules of the course, the rules of the game, and how to fire the gun. Then two people were chosen to be the captains and they choose the teams. We split up and headed out to the course—one blue team and one red team, I was blue. Anyway, we played a game that was similar to capture the flag. A flag was placed in the center of the course and the objective was to capture it and advance it up to the other team’s base. If you get shot, you are out for a minute and have to return to the base. My team won the first game easily, but I was shot many times—but I really didn’t think it hurt getting shot with them. After the first game, a lot of the kids were almost out of ammo. We were only given paintballs and they don’t last. The worst part of it was that they only had 300 more for the whole group. So needless to say, we only were able to get one more full game in. After that, the kids who still had some paintballs played another game while everyone else waited by the bus. I really enjoyed playing paintball, but there were a lot who simply didn’t have a good time. We got back to the hotel later in the afternoon and we had the rest of the day off. So some of us decided to go out to a Chilean Chinese restaurant, but I couldn’t find my wallet. I didn’t go to dinner and I spent well over two hours looking for the thing. So I had to call home and cancel my credit card and now I’m writing my blog hoping I just accidently left it on the bus.